Wedding Dress Challenge

I've had several friends get married over the past 12 months and slowly but surely my Facebook feed and blog reader are being covered in photos of beautiful smiling girls in white gowns with handsome men holding on to one another, and their goofy looking friends (including me) awkwardly dancing or shoving cake in their mouths.  Lovely.  All of my friends are beautiful sans formal gowns, fancy updo's, and elaborate make-up.  Still...looking at the pictures makes my heart yearn just a little bit.  When Michael Johnson and I were married 7 years ago, I was just out of school and could not afford beautiful bridal portraits.  I used a chunk of savings to pay for our wedding day pictures and they were a huge disappointment.  My family took better pictures with disposable cameras and old school digital bricks than what my "professional" photographers put together.  After sitting on my rear throughout the winter, looking at photos and gaining 5 pounds I made a vain decision... I'm going to take some bridal portraits this Spring....7 years later.  I know that my wedding dress will need to be altered already, but I needed some motivation to get my workout on and I'm thinking that this would be a fun way to do it.  I'd appreciate some accountability from you all too.  I'm trying to convince Michael Johnson to participate in the challenge in a before and after photo but he's not so keen on it.  :)